require("splines") ## Bug report PR#16549 - 'bad value from splineDesign' ## Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:12:47 +0000 ## https://bugs.r-project.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16549 ## Reporter: roconnor@health.usf.edu (extended original example code) kn8.01 <- c(0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1) m1 <- rbind(c(1, 0,0,0)) m.1 <- rbind(c(0,0,0, 1)) stopifnot( ## the first gave (0 0 0 0) instead of m1 : all.equal(splineDesign(kn8.01, c(0,2), outer.ok = TRUE), rbind(m1, 0)), all.equal(splineDesign(kn8.01, c( 0,1,2), outer.ok = TRUE), rbind(m1, m.1, 0)), all.equal(splineDesign(kn8.01, c(-1,0,1), outer.ok = TRUE), rbind(0, m1, m.1)), all.equal(splineDesign(kn8.01, 0, outer.ok = TRUE), m1), all.equal(splineDesign(kn8.01, 0), m1), TRUE) ## The original fix proposal introduced a new bug, visible here: S <- splineDesign(c(-3, -3, -2, 0, 2, 3, 3), x= -3:3, outer.ok=TRUE) ## (had a NaN in the lower-right corner) stopifnot(all.equal(S, rbind(0, c(22,3,0)/45, c(193, 6*23, 9)/360, c(1,3,1)/5, c(9, 6*23, 193)/360, c(0,3,22)/45, 0), tolerance = 1e-14)) chkSum.Ok <- TRUE ## for check chkSum <- function(knots, n = 1 + 2^9, ord = 4) { stopifnot(is.numeric(knots), !is.unsorted(knots), (n.k <- length(knots)) >= ord) dk <- diff(rk <- range(uk <- unique(knots))) if(dk == 0) dk <- uk[1]/4 d.x <- dk / (2*n.k) ## x: the unique knots x <- sort(c(uk, seq.int(min(knots)-d.x, max(knots)+d.x, length.out = n))) bb <- splineDesign(knots, x = x, ord = ord, outer.ok = TRUE) is.x.in <- knots[ord] <= x & x <= knots[n.k-(ord-1)] ## ~~~~ ~~~~ same as in splineDesign(*, outer.ok=TRUE) ## ### no longer needed: ## work around "infelicity" (or not; not sure if to call "bug") ## n.RHk := #{duplicated RHS boundary knots} ## n.RHk <- match(FALSE, rev(duplicated(knots))) ## if(ord > 1 && n.RHk > ord) { ## the (ord == 1) case "works" via spike = 1 ## ## <==> knots[n.k -j ] == knots[n.k] for j = 0,1,..,(n.RHk-1) ## ## then spl(x= RHS-knot, knots) == 0, even though "should" be 1 ## ## "FIX it up" for here. FIXME: do in splineDesign() or it's C code ?! ## iR <- which(x == knots[n.k]) ## ## ncol(bb) == n.k - ord ## j <- n.k - n.RHk # == ncol(bb) - (n.RHk - ord) ## if(any(bb[iR, j] == 0)) bb[iR, j] <- 1 ## } sumB <- rowSums(bb) if(any(iBad <- !is.finite(sumB))) { chkSum.Ok <<- FALSE ## for check cat("** _FIXME_ NON-finite values in sumB: ord = ", ord, "; |knots| =", n.k,"\n") cat("knots <- "); dput(knots) cat("non-finite at x = "); dput(x[iBad]) } else if(length(bb)) { # only when bb[] is not 0-dimensional eps <- 3*.Machine$double.eps stopifnot(abs(1 - sumB[is.x.in]) <= 2*eps, 0 <= sumB+eps, sumB-2*eps <= 1) ## TODO: now also check derivatives } invisible(bb) } plotSplD <- function(knots, n = 2^10, ord = 4, type = "l", ylim = c(0,1), ylab = "B-splines", ...) { stopifnot(is.numeric(knots), !is.unsorted(knots), (n.k <- length(knots)) >= ord) dk <- diff(range(uk <- unique(knots))) if(dk == 0) dk <- uk[1]/4 d.x <- dk / (2*n.k) ## x: will contain the unique knots uk x <- sort(c(uk, seq.int(min(knots)-d.x, max(knots)+d.x, length.out = n))) bb <- splineDesign(knots, x = x, ord = ord, outer.ok = TRUE) matplot(x, bb, type=type, ylim=ylim, ylab=ylab, ...) sumB <- rowSums(bb) abline(v = knots, lty = 3, col = "light gray") abline(v = knots[c(ord, n.k-(ord-1))], lty = 3, col = "gray10") lines(x, sumB, col = adjustcolor("red", 0.4), lwd = 3) abline(h=1, lty=2, col = adjustcolor(1, 0.4), lwd = 2) ## lty, col,: from matplot() legend(mean(x), 0.98, legend = paste0("B_", 1:ncol(bb)), lty=1:5, col=1:6, bty = "n", xjust = 0.5) invisible(list(x=x, splineDesign = bb)) } if(!dev.interactive(orNone=TRUE)) pdf("spline-tst.pdf") plotSplD(kn8.01) chkSum (kn8.01) ## from ../man/splineDesign.Rd : knots <- c(1,1.8,3:5,6.5,7,8.1,9.2,10) # 10 => 10-4 = 6 Basis splines str(plotSplD(knots)) # cubic splines, adding to 1 in [ 4, 7 ] str(plotSplD(knots, ord=3))# quadratic splines, adding to 1 in [ 3, 8.1] str(plotSplD(knots, ord=2))# linear splines, adding to 1 in [1.8,9.2] str(plotSplD(knots, ord=1))# constant splines, adding to 1 in [1, 10] chkSum(knots) chkSum(knots, ord=3) chkSum(knots, ord=2) chkSum(knots, ord=1) ## cases that failed too {Linux lynne 4.1.6 x86_64} chkSum(c(1:5, 9,9), ord=2) # ok for ord in {1,3,4} chkSum(c(1:4, 9,9,9), ord=3) chkSum(c(1:3, 9,9,9,9), ord=4) ## These failed in R <= 3.2.2 (but not after first fix): chkSum(c(0,0,0,0, 1:3), ord=4) chkSum(c(0,0,0, 1:4), ord=3) chkSum(c(0,0, 1:5), ord=2) ## This should be symmetric, but was not; ## the graphic is maybe most convincing: k6.01 <- c(0,0,0, 1,1,1) round(with(plotSplD(k6.01, ord=2, n=16), cbind(x, splineDesign)), 4) x8 <- (0:8)/8 sp8 <- splineDesign(k6.01, x=x8, ord=2) print.table(8*sp8, zero.print=".") stopifnot(all.equal(8*sp8, cbind(0, 8:0, 0:8, 0), tol = 1e-14)) ## or just splineDesign(k6.01, x=0:1, ord=2) ## 0 1 0 0 ## 0 0 1 0 --- [finally !] stopifnot(identical(cbind(0, diag(2), 0), splineDesign(k6.01, x=0:1, ord=2))) ## Further: for(k in 0:8) chkSum(c(0:k, 9,9,9), ord=2) for(k in 0:8) chkSum(c(0:k, 9,9,9,9), ord=3) for(k in 0:8) chkSum(c(0:k, 9,9,9,9,9), ord=4) ## look at two examples r <- plotSplD(c(0:4, 8.9,9,9,9), ord=3)# B_6 is narrow spike r. <- plotSplD(c(0:4, 9, 9,9,9), ord=3)# B_6 diverged to all zero. if(interactive()) round(with(r., cbind(x, splineDesign)), 4) stopifnot(r.$splineDesign[, 6] == 0) ## one could argue that B_6 should also have finite area, and hence be "a delta". ## ==> sum_j B_j(x = 9) would then be Inf or undefined .. ## more sensible: B_6 should be omitted and should have B_5(9) == 1 ## now implemented: stopifnot(identical(c(0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0), with(r., splineDesign[x == 9,]))) ## Everything is fine, if left-right mirrored / reversed : r03 <- plotSplD(c(0,0,0,0, 1:5), ord=3) ## here, B_1 is "delta" and should rather be omitted stopifnot(identical(c(0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0), with(r03, splineDesign[x == 0,]))) ## 0 1 0 0 0 0 -- as it should be .. round(with(r03, cbind(x, splineDesign)[50:60,]), 4) r04 <- plotSplD(c(0,0,0,0, 1:5), ord=4) ## here, B_1 is "delta" and should rather be omitted stopifnot(identical(c(1, 0, 0, 0, 0), with(r04, splineDesign[x == 0,]))) round(with(r04, cbind(x, splineDesign)[50:60,]), 4) r0.4 <- plotSplD(c(0,0,0, 1:5), ord=4) # basis is nice and correct set.seed(17) for(n in 1:1000) { if(n %% 50 == 0) cat(sprintf("n = %4d\n",n)) kn <- sort.int(round(10* rnorm(4 + rpois(1, lambda=4)))) for(oo in 1:4) ## if(inherits(r <- tryCatch(chkSum(kn, ord=oo), error=identity), "error")) ## cat(r$message, "\n chkSum(", deparse(kn), ", ord = ", oo, ")\n") chkSum(kn, ord = oo) } ## One of the cases with NaN {when used ( . <= x & x <= . )}: bb <- chkSum(c(-14, -4, 3, 5, 6, 15, 15)) stopifnot(is.finite(rowSums(bb))) stopifnot(chkSum.Ok) proc.time() ###---- "Bug report" (to R-core) from Trevor Hastie --- ###----> bs(*, Boundary.knots = .) ### needing boundary ajustment for correct extrapolation ## Trevor's Example, slightly modified and extended: x <- seq(1.5, 8.5, by = 1/4) set.seed(13) y <- x + .01*(x - 5)^3 + rnorm(x) fit0 <- lm(y ~ bs(x, degree=3, knots=4)) fit0.<- lm(y ~ bs(x, degree=3, knots=4, Boundary.knots=c(1,9)))# *NOT* outside fit1 <- lm(y ~ bs(x, degree=3, knots=4, Boundary.knots=c(1,8)))# warning fit2 <- lm(y ~ bs(x, degree=3, knots=4, Boundary.knots=c(2,8)))# warning "2 x" jx <- seq(from=-2,to=12, by=0.1) p0 <- predict(fit0, list(x=jx)) p0.<- predict(fit0, list(x=jx)) p1 <- predict(fit1, list(x=jx)) p2 <- predict(fit2, list(x=jx)) stopifnot(all.equal(p0, p0.,tol=1e-14), all.equal(p0, p1, tol=1e-14), all.equal(p0, p2, tol=1e-14)) ## ^^ p1 and p2 differed from p0 in R <= 3.2.2 ## See numerical fuzz: all.equal(p0, p0., tol=0) all.equal(p0, p1, tol=0) all.equal(p0, p2, tol=0) all.equal(p1, p2, tol=0)# interestingly almost the same ## formula ==> print for default method ispl <- with(women, interpSpline( height, weight )) stopifnot(identical(format(formula(ispl)), "weight ~ height")) ## was wrongly .Primitive(\"~\")(wei...